December 2011 – The Sound Projector

Fruit of the High

Tomorrow is Saint Valentine’s Day If I was hearing Broken Heart Collector (DISCORPORATE RECORDS DISREC18) in February or March instead

Some fine cassettes pulled out the boxes of late. Dead Girl’s Party is a Scott Foust (Idea Fire Company) side

Small Cruel Party at the Zoo An unsettling item of ambiguous electronic music is Soft Zoo (FIRST FOLD RECORDS FOLDCD011),

If you want to sharpen your wits with some good old-fashioned astringent modernism, the double CD On Tour (MUTABLE MUSIC

Heartbreak Hotel Revisited The guitarist Loren Connors is here with the Haunted House band on which he’s joined by singer

Univrs. (RASTER NOTON R-N 133) by Alva Noto is a record which I would like to think celebrates the joys

A cassette it be…short in length…Pee in My Face With Surgery, an American absurd noise combo comprising Fritz and Jaime

Dan Melchior is an English singer-songwriter based in New York, and his Catbirds and Cardinals (NORTHERN SPY NSCD011) was recorded

The Sound Projector Christmas Radio Show Friday 16th December 2011 Steeleye Span: ‘Hard Times of Old England’ ‘Gaudete’ ‘The Wife

The Tree in the Quadtych From Sheffield here’s Cameron Deas, another guitar-playing acoustic Englishman worthy to hold his head alongside